Denis Condon’s blog Early Irish Cinema looks back at the early development of cinema in Ireland on the anniversaries of those developments and offers information on what cinemagoers could have seen in Irish cinemas a century ago. Here Denis explores the effect of the Rising on cinemas. Dublin’s smoking ruins in May 1916. Image from the […]

Denis Condon takes a look at the rising integration of cinemas into the business practices of Irish cities, towns and rural areas at the end of 1914 and how the war provided a topical subject matter with which to attract audiences.